Is the parking worse on your street ? Email megan.howe@mailonline.co.ukNeighbours living on a road littered with illegal parking have blamed shoppers for clogging up their street.
Zulfkiar Ali, 62, said people going shopping in nearby Alum Rock leave their cars along the street, which causes problems especially on a weekend He believes the solution would be to have resident permits and called for the government to do more to help residents.'You have no choice. I get tickets, I can't afford them.'
'A lot of the cars here are from another road. We need permits here. A lot of the other roads have garages on the back of them.' Photographs taken on Bank Holiday Monday show four cars left in the middle of the street, on pavements and across pedestrian areas.